Álvaro Torres

Currently Building

• Francesinhas Online 2026 - Present

  Online community where you can review and rate the best food in the world, francesinha, with your friends in a fun and engaging way.

Failed Startups

Lessons learned from attempts that didn't work out.

• goX 2023 - 2025

  The Everything App for Travelers. Too much competition and wrong timing made us fail. Learned that timing and speed is everything and that building something useful and valuable takes a lot of time, effort and teamwork.

Sidequests

• AquaHub 2024 - Present

  AquaHub is the all-in-one network and open map for water quality across beaches, lakes, ponds, rivers and fountains.

• LifetimeR 2026 - Present

  LifetimeR is a mindset: Minimalize life to focus on goals and on living. Because life is too short to waste. With LifetimeR you can build minimalist wallpapers for mindful living.

Small Ventures

Instagram pages, small businesses, and micro-projects.

• @oneupentrepreneurship 2021 - Present

  Educational, motivational and news page on all-things entrepreneurship, engineering, technology, science and humanity.

• @entr3prenow 2021 - 2022

  EntrepreNow's mission was to help and educate people and to elevate the entrepreneurial spirit in society.

• @donames.invst 2022 - 2023

  Investments in domain names.

Professional Projects

Work done at companies and organizations.

• HBK Device Discovery Electron app @ HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær

  Built in the scope of my Bachelor's degree capstone project internship. HBK Device Discovery is an Electron Desktop app for discovery and configuration of HBK devices and sensors.

• Automated testing procedure for a wave energy harvesting system @ inanoEnergy

  Developed an automated testing procedure for a wave energy harvesting system.

University Projects

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• AI Supervised Learning Models Artificial Intelligence

  Steel Plate Defect Prediction: Supervised Learning techniques in the context of classification problems. Python, Jupyter.

• BidZenith Web Applications Laboratory

  Online auctions website. Laravel, HTML, CSS, PHP.

• TechTudo Web Languages and Technologies

  A website for buying and selling of pre-loved phones. HTML, CSS, PHP.

• Abacus Board Game Artificial Intelligence

  Adversarial Search Methods for Two-Player Board Games. Python.

• Saviors of the Solar System Software Design and Testing Laboratory

  Videogame: Saviors of the Solar System. Java.

• Gamer's Gym Programming

  Videogame: Gamer's Gym. C.

• Parallel and Distributed Computing Projects Parallel and Distributed Computing

  Matrix Multiplication Optimizations and Java Distributed Client-Server Chat System. C++, C#, Python, Java.

• Computer Graphics Project Computer Graphics

  A 3D graphics project developed for the Computer Graphics course. JavaScript.

• Compilers Project Compilers

  Working compiler for a simple, but realistic high level programming language (Java--). Java.

• RC-Lab2 Computer Networks

  A computer networks lab project. C.

• rc-project Computer Networks

  A computer networks lab project. C.

• PFL Project 2 Functional and Logic Programming

  A functional programming project. Prolog.

• TP1-PFL Functional and Logic Programming

  A Haskell project for functional programming. Haskell.

• Project2DA Algorithm Design

  A data analysis project. C++.

• Project1DA Algorithm Design

  A data analysis project. C++.

• aedproject2 Algorithms and Data Structures

  An algorithms and data structures project. C++.

• AED-PROJECT Algorithms and Data Structures

  A project for the AED course. C++.

• Projeto-AED Algorithms and Data Structures

  A project for algorithms and data structures. C++.

• Design Patterns Software Design and Testing Laboratory

  A collection of design pattern implementations. Java.

• Numbers Software Design and Testing Laboratory

  A project involving number operations. Java.

• Hero Software Design and Testing Laboratory

  A Java simple project. Java.

• Hello World Software Design and Testing Laboratory

  A simple Hello World application. Java.

• PROG Programming

  C++ programming project. C++.

Professional Experience & Volunteering

• Computer Engineer @ HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær August 2025 - Present

  Developing IO-Link smart sensor desktop applications and projects. Germany and Portugal.

• Intern @ HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær February 2025 - July 2025

  Developed an Electron app for HBK device discovery and configuration. Porto, Portugal.

• Internship and Project Development @ inanoEnergy June 2024 - February 2025

  Developed an automated testing procedure for a wave energy harvesting system. Porto, Portugal.

• AI Video Training Contributor @ Agit January 2024 - December 2024

  Produced and annotated workout videos to train an AI-based exercise recognition model. Porto, Portugal.

• Freelance Support @ HCEN Engenharia SA 2020 - Present

  Assisting with small-scale engineering tasks and administrative support. Porto, Portugal.

• Active Member @ Associação CADO January 2022 - Present

  Volunteer work.